Questions

Jonathan Robie Jonathan.Robie at SoftwareAG-USA.com
Sun May 28 22:20:28 EDT 2000


At 11:07 PM 5/26/00 -0600, Don Myers wrote:

>   I have the Everyman's Greek and Hebrew book by Ed Goodrick which I got at
>Amazon.com. That is in reply to Michaels question of trying to locate it. I
>just got it.

I thought that Everyman's Greek glossed over a lot of important things, but 
was quite approachable.

>  Michael referred to a second semester book printed by University of Chicago
>Press on translating the Gospel of John. I would like to know more
>information so that I may obtain a copy.

I don't know which book you mean. There is one on First John that has 
received interesting reviews:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0875520952/qid=959562532/sr=1-1/104-8951717-6801211

This is by S.M.Baugh, who seems to have wonderful things to say when he 
posts here, and has written some extremely interesting articles. Based on 
other things he has written, I get the impression he really knows how to 
teach. Alas, I haven't actually looked at this book...

>    I am curious with regards to recomended literary works that can be used
>to further my learning of greek if anyone has some input.

See http://metalab.unc.edu/koine for my list of resources for beginners.

>   I was also wanting see if members of the list had any input on:
>
>    Greek Grammer by Mounce

Quite usable, and there are a bunch of related works such as a graded 
reader and a workbook. This is the most used grammar in evangelical 
seminaries. Not everything he says is true, and this is particularly 
problematic with the introductions to the chapters, which  sometimes 
strongly imply that the Greek carries meanings that I don't personally see 
in those passages.

>     New Testament Greek by Eric G. Jay (A Introductory Grammer)

Don't know this one.

If you are an abstract thinker, A.K.M. Adam's grammar gives clear, concise, 
and true explanations of what the various grammatical forms mean. I might 
combine that with a text that gives more concrete explanations, or use it 
as a corrective to Mounce. It's always a good idea to get a second opinion 
anyway...

>   Finally recomendations for College level independant study courses. Is
>there a institution that members would recomend a distance learning study
>program in Greek?

Sorry, I don't know what to recommend here.

Jonathan 




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